RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1840]. Torn Apart notebook: 131e-132e (excised pages). CUL-DAR49.131. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2025. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy. This is from the so-called Torn Apart notebook. CUL-DAR-TornApartNotebook
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My Father formerly planted two Turkey or Palmated and English, planted within few yards of each other actually produced a hybrid, - my father remembering when in the garden, he knew there was none but English- the Palmated was introduced about '65 years ago - & soon after mules abounded – so that palmated has now nearly disappeared. But these mules in our garden show no trace of palmation!!?
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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